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Rendering in the Spotlight
By Bruce Ross, Ross Gordon Consultants SPRL
It was always going to be challenging for the European this about.
renderers from around the globe — notably North American
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two of the congress expressed what many delegates were help deal with the consequences of animal disease outbreaks; a more sustainable Europe.
compounders rediscovering the advantages of using processed animal proteins (PAPs) as ingredients to meet sustainability targets rendered products in European markets. EFPRA intends to use its sustainability charter to lend weight to this.
It is not every year that the European Commission sends
safety department that manages transmissible spongiform encephalopathies and animal by-products.
be to allow less stringent processing methods for the use of pig PAPs in nonruminant feed following an (expected) favorable and facilitate exports. The commission is also considering use
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for rendering but much hard work goes on to allow such the unsung work EFPRA does in areas such as emissions available technology” rules that will be obligatory -- not mere guidelines. EFPRA had put together a technical team to work a publicly available feed life-cycle analysis (LCA) database to support meaningful environmental assessment of livestock its case in these areas.
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